Peter Toohey

Reading Epic

An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415042277
• ISBN-10: 0415042275
• Artikelnr.: 21247347

Autorenporträt

Peter Toohey

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction CHAPTER ONE: Epic: The genre
its characteristics CHAPTER TWO: Homer
Iliad CHAPTER THREE: Homer Odyssey CHAPTER FOUR: Apollonius of Rhodes
Argonautica CHAPTER FIVE: Beginning epic in Rome CHAPTER SIX: The Alexandrian Miniature Epic CHAPTER SEVEN: Virgil
Aeneid CHAPTER EIGHT: Ovid
Metamorphoses CHAPTER NINE: Lucan
the Civil War CHAPTER TEN: Roman Epic and the Emperor Domitian CHAPTER ELEVEN: Ends and Beginnings: Late Ancient epic APPENDIX: The Epic and the Novel Bibliography of works cited